Adam Green

releases

bio

Adam Green is renowned around the globe as one of music’s
most unique and prolific songwriting talents ­ his songs have been performed by
artists as diverse as The Libertines,
Carla Bruni, Kelly Willis, Dean & Britta, and Will Oldham. A New York native, Green was just 17­years old when he recorded
and released his first album. As part of the downtown antifolk scene at the end of the
nineties he made up one­half of The Moldy
Peaches, who enjoyed belated mainstream success via the Grammy­winning, #1 Billboard Chart ranking soundtrack of the 2007
Academy Award­winning movie Juno. As a
solo artist Green has recorded 9 albums, many of which have become cult hits. His
2005 record Gemstones went Gold in Europe.

His eruptive bursts of creativity have led him into the
world of movies and visual arts ­ staging
exhibitions across Europe and America, most recently at LISTE art fair in
Basel. He also found himself
writing/producing/directing and acting in The Wrong Ferarri (2010), a “screwball tragedy” which was the
first feature film shot entirely on an iPhone. It has since been featured in the curriculum
of NYU’s Tisch Film School. Rolling Stone magazine described it as “Fellini on
Ketamine.”

He's currently completing his second feature film Adam
Green's Aladdin ­ an immersive fantasy
film starring Macaulay Culkin, Natasha Lyonne, Alia Shawkat, and Francesco Clemente ­ with Green playing Aladdin. The
subversive and dazzling art­film was shot entirely on papier­mache sets. The story is a modern day version of Aladdin
wherein the lamp is a 3­D printer, the
Princess is a decadent socialite, the planet gets a sex-change, and its
population prints out an analogue version of the Internet.

In 2015 Adam began a collaboration with Mich Dulce making a
line of hats inspired by his artwork and
the Aladdin movie. The designs incorporate elements from his HOUSEFACE symbolic alphabet, a group of
reduced cubist pictographs gleaned from the
facial features of the popular cartoon characters Garfield, Big Bird, and
Elmo. In January of 2016 he will exhibit the art from
Adam Green's Aladdin at the Fondation Beyeler
Museum in Basel, Switzerland.

Of his now multifaceted career Green, says: “You know how
people are always looking for a unifying
theory? I was looking for a unifying theory of artistic expression. I was trying to create some kind of fluidity within
my music, art, writing. If you listen to my songs, you see they’re kind of cartoonish. I
try to make songs like my paintings. When creating my movie, I approached the script
like it was a song.”